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Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about pregnancy and parenting as a nonbinary person including navigating the incredibly gendered world of fertility and pregnancy, the physical experience of being pregnant, and my thoughts as I look ahead to parenting. FERTILITY AND TRYING TO CONCEIVE Over the course of four years, my husband and I tried as many methods of getting pregnant as we could access. This included home insemination, known … Continue reading Let’s Talk Gender S2E8: Nonbinary Pregnancy and Parenting

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about living in the world as a nonbinary person including what ‘passing’ means for nonbinary people, navigating public washrooms, going to the gym, and how a nonbinary perspective can influence how you interpret other aspects of society.  PASSING AS NONBINARY Passing typically refers to the idea of ‘blending in’ with one of the binary genders, or being consistently recognized as the gender you identify … Continue reading Let’s Talk Gender S2E7: Living in the World as a Nonbinary Person

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about some of the more complex aspects of being nonbinary such as genderfluid identities, how physical and social aspects of gender can feel at odds with each other, and how nonbinary genders interact with sexual orientation. GENDERFLUID IDENTITIES Let’s start with a deeper look at genderfluid identities. I’m going to break this into three different categories for ease of explanation. These categories are arbitrary … Continue reading Let’s Talk Gender S2E6: Complexities of Nonbinary Identities

Hi everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about coming out as nonbinary, why it is so darn hard, how to figure out whether it’s the right time and place to do it (again), and how to respond to inappropriate questions and ignorance.  TO COME OUT OR NOT TO COME OUT… I look at coming out as an equation between pros and cons. On the pro side, I have need and benefit. … Continue reading Let’s Talk Gender S2E5: Coming Out as Nonbinary

Hi Everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender.  This episode is about nonbinary gender presentation and expression and how to figure out what works for you.  EXPLORING MY GENDER PRESENTATION AND EXPRESSION I think of presentation as things people would see in a picture – clothes, hair style, makeup, facial hair, accessories. Expression is everything else – behaviours, voice, how you walk, gesture, and move, conversation style, word choice. As I was raised female and … Continue reading Let’s Talk Gender S2E3: Nonbinary Gender Presentation and Expression

Hi Everyone. Welcome back to Let’s Talk Gender. This episode is about nonbinary gender exploration including my own personal exploration process and some other general ways you can explore your own gender. MY INITIAL GENDER EXPLORATION PROCESS I started with a list of what I knew: Both male and female  My gender fluctuated somewhat I had both physical and social dysphoria I felt invisible but didn’t feel ready to come out yet I then made a … Continue reading Let’s Talk Gender S2E2: Nonbinary Gender Exploration